I have been to many tropic portsI might include even BrooklynIf you're ever feelin' out of sortsI'd like to recommend a look in...

Managua, Nicaragua, what a wonderful spotThere's coffee and bananas and a temperature hotSo take a trip and on a ship go sailing awayAcross the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, olOl, olAcross the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, ol

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Managua, Nicaragua is a beautiful townYou buy a hosienda for a few pesos downYou give it to the lady you are tryin' to winBut her papa doesn't let you come in

Every day is made for play and fun'Cause every day is fiestaAnd they work from twelve o'clock to oneMinus an hour for siesta

Managua, Nicaragua, what a wonderful spotThere's coffee and bananas and a temperature hotSo take a trip and on a ship go sailing awayAcross the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, olOl, olAcross the agua to Managua, Nicaragua, ol

Comments/Interpretations

by Chris Skjervold on 6/30/2008 11:50amWhat the...?

by Dust on 1/25/2009 5:02pmMy spanish teach brought this song up in class, it's kinda catchy.

by Joann Stahl on 2/28/2009 6:56amGreat tune, very catchy, Love the rhythm wish I could find the music for it. My Church is doing a Caberet and the songs will be from different countries around the world.

by kelli mcguire on 11/18/2010 1:49pmI learned the words to this song (before Google) by playing the TAPE over & over, stopping, rewinding a thousand times! The tape was given to me by Ambassador Gutierrez, the U.S. Ambassador to Managua, so that I could learn the words to sing it at the embassy talent show I was organizing.

by diana schulz on 11/20/2010 2:08ami was born in 1946 & my mom had this record & played it, it was a riot. i hate to tell you this but those were the days, i mean those were the real days.

by Clive Cudmore on 3/7/2011 6:01pmGret old song, been in my thoughts lately.

by Juicy Fruit on 3/18/2011 10:32amI learned this in Spanish. We are having a test on the countries and capitols of Spanish speaking countries. This song will make me never forget what the capitol of Nicaragua.

by Bill Fowler on 6/16/2011 10:19amDidn't know the lyrics were ever in Spanish. I recall it for the late 40's. Quite popular at the time.

by PAUL A JOHNSON / R.N. on 2/23/2012 5:18pmGREAT SITE AND KEEP UP THE PROFESSIONAL WORK............IT IS AWSOME!

by Jim Gerardi on 7/29/2012 5:19pmAround 1948, my older brother had this song on a 78 rpm record, and we played it over and over. I came to this site to get the words because all I could remember were the first two lines. But the tune has stayed with me all these years.

by Mary Friesen on 2/27/2015 8:22amI grew up in the 30's and 40's and was a big fan of all pop music. I can still sing many ofthe songs, but only learned a couple. lines from "Managua etc." Thanks for the rest of it. I agree with Diana Schultz, "those were the real days" and real music.

by marty Bodner on 3/9/2015 8:27pmThe song was reflective of life back then. Calmer, more peaceful and easier to handle. THANKS !

by joan schuster on 8/23/2016 8:04amI never dreamt when I was in high school in Harrison NY singing and dancing "Managua Nicaragua" that I would one day wind up living there from March 3 1960 to Nov. 3 1962. While I didn't live in an hacienda, I lived in a beautiful house with spacious grounds where the owner planted coffee seeds which when they became small trees were transplanted to his coffee plantation high up in the hills. I had the time of my life in Managua Nicaragua and cried when the plane took off for Miami. It was during the Cuban Missile Crisis and our plane was escorted into Miami Airport by a Navy Fighter Plane. A dramatic ending to a time I will never forget.